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Day 5 - Vision meeting: competing without Big Tech
In-person gathering in Masnou (29 May 2026): why and for whom KM0 is built - proximity, sovereignty, and honest pricing versus closed cloud suites.
Introduction
Day 5 does not document deployments or commits: it captures a vision meeting on 29 May 2026, around 19:00, at an informal venue in Masnou (Barcelona). For about two hours, in a fully in-person and approachable format, the KM0 team presented the initiative - with a supporting video - to people from the local community.
Days 1–4 explain how the stack was built (OpenCloud, Dex, domains, LDAP login…). This entry explains the why and for whom that motivate the technical work.
Objective
Opening the conversation
Present the initiative, the solutions we can already offer, and the idea that a small team, with today's tools (including LLM-assisted development, sometimes locally when it fits), can compete in delivery capacity with structures that once required hundreds of people.
“With the tools we have, a small team can compete with very large companies.”
It was not a closed roadmap or a whiteboard prioritisation exercise: it was about aligning narrative and conviction - and listening to questions from people who see technology from outside the sector.
Problem
Dependence on closed cloud suites
Many organisations - associations, SMEs, cooperatives, neighbourhood groups - depend on cloud suites and closed services whose price does not reflect the real cost of storing data. An example we discussed: a storage account on a major platform can cost on the order of €10 per month, while the disk cost at scale can be below five cents.
“Competing”, in our vocabulary, is not a marketing war. It is a set of practical decisions:
- Not depending on a handful of global providers for essentials (email, files, identity).
- Competing on product and price with honest offers, not inflated ones.
- Decentralising - keeping value and support close, not in an anonymous call centre.
- Democratising capabilities - automation, development, and operations within reach of small teams.
People
Humans, not “the company”
There are people behind KM0. Whoever contacts us speaks with someone on the team; if needed, we can meet in person. We do not sell the illusion of faceless infinite scale: we sell real support, answers, and guidance when someone migrates files or configures access.
That fits the meeting's audience - people who do not live in Jira tickets or opaque admin panels - and the proximity bet from Masnou, where we administer and operate what we deploy.
Offer
What KM0 offers today (and what's next)
- Cloud: operational service at cloud.km0digital.com, file space and collaboration on infrastructure we control (documented technically in days 1–4 of this series).
- Web: project introduction at km0digital.com, multilingual, with information and contact options.
- Horizon: email and other “km0” digital services when they fit the same philosophy: local, ours, minimal cost, and human contact.
“Local” for us has a triple meaning: geographic (Barcelona, Masnou), legal and operational (we manage it), and viable, not a lab experiment, but a service already running.
Principles
For non-technical audiences
- Your data, our commitment: information lives on infrastructure we do not sell to third parties for model training or ad profiling.
- Open source as a “public recipe”: where we use free software (e.g. the OpenCloud ecosystem), anyone can review how it works or audit it.
- Affordable, transparent pricing: aligned with real cost, not bundled suite pricing.
- Control of the relationship: contract and support with the same team that builds the service.
AI came up as a lever - today you can develop and operate with language models, sometimes locally, not as a substitute for human judgement.
Community
Open gatherings
The 29 May meeting was not a “members only” closed event: we intend for anyone interested to join future gatherings. The project website has links to continue the conversation - including WhatsApp group access from km0digital.com, and direct contact channels.
KM0 is not just technology: proximity + sovereignty + honest cost, with modern tools serving a small team still reachable by phone or in person.
Outcomes
What came out of that afternoon
- One attendee showed motivation and capacity to drive an article in the local regional newspaper.
- A more ambitious communications horizon: articulating the story in the press and exploring a documentary of roughly ninety minutes - approachable, in Catalan or Spanish depending on context.
Technical series
Days 1–4
If you want to know how the cloud is set up - Debian, Nginx, Docker, Dex, LDAP login against the IDM, certificates, autoagents - browse the earlier entries in this series. Day 5 closes the narrative circle. To join the conversation or ask about the cloud: get in touch, you'll speak with people, not a corporate bot.